Reuters Google is reportedly paying Apple a whopping $9 billion in 2018 to remain the default search engine for iPhone’s Safari browser on iOS. According to Goldman Sachs analyst Rod Hall (via Business Insider), this number would only continue to grow, potentially leading to a payment of $12 billion in 2019. While Apple uses Google…
Tech Explorist: As smartphones approach the critical mass, we may begin to see a little spec-based overkill in order to make devices stand out from the crowd – especially within devices emerging from the Far East. Enter a new variant of the Oppo Find X, which will reportedly arrive toting a staggering 10GB of RAM…
Desk Report Bangladesh is set to ink a deal with the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) this year to expand trade and commerce, including duty-free market access to Russia, and tap the potential of exports to East European markets, officials said. Contacted, Additional Secretary of the commerce ministry Md Shafiqul Islam said, “We have sent an…
Desk Report India’s top court has ruled adultery is no longer a crime, striking down a 158-year-old colonial-era law which it said treated women as male property, reports BBC. Previously any man who had sex with a married woman, without the permission of her husband, had committed a crime. A petitioner had challenged the law…
UNB Jukta Front Chairman AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Saturday urged the democratic forces to get united to resist any ‘election mockery’ and restore people’s voting rights. “Bangladesh will face destruction while democracy will be exiled forever if the elections see engineering and mockery in the future again. So, we must carry out our struggle to…
Desk Report: Bicycle-rental service JoBike, which would allow riders to rent a bike from one’s smartphone, is set to roll out operations within the next three months at public universities with a view to providing economical and environment-friendly mode of transport for students. Initially, the startup plans to run its service at Dhaka University, Rajshahi…
Arabiya On the occasion marking the 30th anniversary of the end of the war with Iraq that started in September 1980 and ended in August 1988, the Iranian Shiraz city in south of the country, put up a huge billboard of three soldiers glorifying them for fighting during the eight-year war. But the story does…
UNHCR: The canal system that brings precious water to farmers in this remote community in eastern Ethiopia has allowed a parched desert to bloom and a community to flourish. “Before the canal was built, there was only bush here,” says Ibrahim Abdi Farah, Host Community Irrigation Scheme Chairman at Kobe refugee camp. “We couldn’t grow…
Desk Report Police arrested a Jamaat-e-Islami leader along with 10 crude bombs from Khorki village of Madhobpur upazila and recovered eight molotov bombs from Baniachong upazila early Saturday. The arrestee is Nazrul Islam, ameer of Jamaat Madhobpur upazila unit. On information about a secret meeting, police conducted a drive at the village and arrested Nazrul…
Desk Report The government has approved Singapore-based Wilmar and India’s Adani Group’s joint plan to invest $350 million in Bangladesh to establish an industrial park in the Mirsarai economic zone, said officials. The permission from the Prime Minister’s Office came months after Pua Seck Guan, chief operating officer of Wilmar International, a leading agribusiness group…